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Mark Monmonier, a Syracuse University professor of geography, said the Mercator projection is obsolete and geographers have long advised people to not use it as a world map.—Jason Ma, Fortune, 23 Aug. 2025 During the program, Norm Moline, a historical geographer with experience in historic preservation, will recount the history of the Illinois and Michigan Canal, and its designation in 1984 as the nation’s first National Heritage Area.—Aurora Beacon-News, Chicago Tribune, 8 Aug. 2025 In the book, five strangers – a white American geographer, a South Sudanese translator, a northern Sudanese cook, a Sudanese-American filmmaker, and a local boy – find themselves at an NGO compound in the fictional town of Saraaya, on the border of Sudan and South Sudan.—Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 23 June 2025 Thabet Abu Rass, a political geographer at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, told me that Palestinians have rushed to fill the resulting openings in medicine.—Eyal Press, New Yorker, 9 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for geographer
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